The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18133619886)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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Property of the Artist Study for painting of setters One of jVIr. Knight's best known paintings is of the two prize winning collies. Blue Prince and Wishaw Clinker, which belonged to the late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan Mr. Knight is known to the world however as a painter and sculptor of modern animals also, and New York has recently had the unusual opportunity of seeing a large collection of his work in a public exhibition at the Museum. Hith- erto he has been known by the people who have seen one or more of his scat- tered works, those for instance in the homes of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan or of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, of Mrs. Dean Sage of Albany, of Mrs. Archibald Rogers and Mrs. E. H. Harriman of New York. Some have seen his work at Woods Hole where "^ he often spends the Jaguar head in pencil summer, given every facility through the courtesy of the United States Bureau of Fisheries stationed there and of the Ma- rine Biological Laboratory. He particu- larly excels in these fish paintings, whether the canvas is of highly decorative charac- ter such as the panels owned by Professor Osborn or those more directly scientific, like the series of shark paintings com- pleted for the United States Government in the summer of 1913. Others have known his models of the African elephant heads on the north facade of the new elephant house in the Bronx Zoological Park — a commis- sion gained through an a n o n y m o us 93
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